Latest releases
January 25, 2012
Smile Releases PDFpen for iPad, Making PDFpen the First Complete Solution For Full-featured PDF Editing on iPad and Mac
January 25, 2012
Smile Embraces iCloud on iPad and Mac with new PDFpen Releases
December 7, 2011
TextExpander 3.4 Adds Help for Group Sharing, "Tweet My Stats"
Press & Awards
December 7, 2010, Macworld
TextExpander: 2010 Macworld Editors Choice Award
"What makes TextExpander a great app isn’t just that it’s so handy and so capable, but also the fact that it’s constantly evolving—refining its core tools, adding new ones, and adapting to an ever-changing technology landscape. That’s how a venerable utility like TextExpander remains fresh and vital, and why it’s one of our favorite apps of the year."
-Macworld.com, Dan Miller
September 23, 2010, Take Control Books/TidBITs
Take Control of PDFpen 5 Teaches You to Tweak PDFs Like a Pro
"Have you ever had to fill out and sign a PDF-based form? Or change the date on a PDF-based flyer? Make comments on a document sent around your workplace as a PDF file? Scan a document to PDF and OCR the text? For those tasks, I generally turn to Smile’s PDFpen, which can perform many PDF manipulations more easily than Adobe Acrobat, and at a fraction of the price. That’s why we’re happy to bring you Take Control of PDFpen 5 to demystify the many sorts of PDF manipulation you can accomplish using PDFpen."
- MacVoices interview with Michael E. Cohen, author of Take Control of PDFpen 5
September 9, 2010, MacVoices
The Smile Software Crew Introduce the Cool New Features of PDF Pen 5
"Smile Software (formerly SmileOnMyMac) is at it again, upgrading one of their wildly useful tools with even more new and cool features. Jean MacDonald, Philip Goward and Greg Scown join us to talk about PDF Pen 5."
May 18, 2010, Macworld
Essential Mac Utilities: text expanders
"The overall win, however (this time at least), goes to TextExpander, because of its support for syncing, creating expansions from selected text, and executing shell scripts in expansions. These features push it slightly ahead of TypeIt4Me, and help justify its higher price tag."
-Macworld.com, Rob Griffiths
December 10, 2009, Macworld
PDFpen: 2009 Macworld Editors Choice Award
"When it comes to modifying PDFs, Smile’s PDFPen 4.5 fits neatly between OS X’s free Preview and Adobe’s $449 Acrobat Pro. At only $50, it goes well beyond Preview’s PDF processing power, yet it offers some of the same features you’ll find in the much more costly Acrobat Pro. ... PDFPen may not be the most exciting product among this year’s Eddys, but it’s certainly one of the most useful."
-Macworld.com, Rob Griffiths
December 4, 2009, Macworld
PDFpen 4.5: A useful and feature-laden PDF editing tool
4 mice. "Its abilities compare well with Acrobat Pro, and yet PDFpen comes in at roughly a tenth of the cost."
-Macworld.com, Rob Griffiths
August 2009, MacCompanion.com
DiscLabel 6.0.1 — Customize/Personalize your media packaging the Smile way
"With its enhanced interface and added features, this product is, for now, the leader in the Macintosh media labeling software."
March 2, 2009
MacVoices #954: The Partners of Smile Profile Their Company and Their Products
The partners (and principals) of Smile talk about the history of their company and their products in this special behind-the-scenes look at a Mac software success story. [podcast]
January 2009
Macworld 2009: The Mac Observer Editors Choice Award
PDFpen 4
"Editing PDFs can be an intimidating and daunting task without the right tools. Smile's PDFpen 4 fits that bill perfectly thanks to its easy to use features. ...PDFpen 4 can handle almost everyone's PDF editing needs, and it won't hurt your pocketbook, either."
August 2008, Mac|Life
"Take Back Lost Time On Your Mac"
TextExpander, "Awesome" (5/5 rating)
Editors Choice
"If you like doing things the long hard way, do not install TextExpander! But if you could use a few extra minutes each day to get more done on your Mac, add this app to your productivity toolbox."
March 5, 2008, Information Week
11 Lifehacking Tips for Improving Productivity
TextExpander
January 22, 2008, Home Office Warrior
Must Have Applications for the Home Office Warrior
PageSender, PDFpen
January 16, 2008, The Mac Observer
Editors' Choice Winners for Macworld 2008
PDFpenPro
March 29, 2007, Mac|Life
Label Your CDs and DVDs like a Pro
DiscLabel 4.1.2, "Great" (4/5)
"DiscLabel makes it easy to create professional-level labels for your discs."
June 2006, MacAddict
BrowseBack, "Great" (4/5)
"A great timesaving tool for Web research."
March 2006, Macworld
BrowseBack, 3.5 mice
Web-page indexing application archives browser history
January 2006, Macworld
BrowseBack: Macworld Expo Best of Show
March 2005, Macworld
PDFpen, 4 mice
PDF Utility Maximizes the Simplicity of Filling Out Forms
February 2004, Macworld
Macworld: The 19th Annual Editors' Choice Awards
DiscLabel, PageSender
July 2003, Macworld
Macworld Announces Best of Show Awards
DiscLabel
June 2003, Macworld
PageSender3.0, 4 mice
Top-notch Fax Application
May 2003, Macworld
PageSender, 4 mice
Fax Software: One Application Is a Shining Light in a Field Dominanted by Dim Products